race

Today, what’s next for the Democratic Party and its relationship between its most consistent base of support - African American voters. Also, we check in with a Gen Z gun violence prevention advocate about how her work pushes on through a Trump presidency. And we hear from one biologist in the Upper Peninsula who made a massive, yet teensy discovery.

The federal government's settlement made to sex abuse survivors for failing to stop Larry Nasser sooner, a book that investigates the economic experiences of five working class families, and a trip to multi-disciplinary artist Tiff Massey's studio in Detroit.

A new federal rule ends a decades-long federal practice of classifying Middle Eastern and North African people as white.

The sentencing of the parents of the Oxford High School shooter, a survey on how comfortable students in the Grand Traverse region feel asking counselors for help, an online cannabis certificate program, and what some amendments to the US Census mean for Michigan’s Middle Eastern and North African residents.

Cultural references to passing have been around for a long time. But recent works like the Rebecca Hall’s film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s book, Passing, have brought it back to the forefront. Today, we talk about the contexts that have caused this narrative to recur across the centuries.

What novels and movies about Black people living as white can tell us about race in the United States. Check-ins on the status of Michigan’s collegiate men’s basketball teams and the state’s elk population. Plus, the year-round commitment of Michigan’s professional Santa Clauses.

Being a black woman in America is equivalent to feeling like a “double, triple, quadruple minority,” says Florence Noel. She argues that this is not only…

Some community leaders in Grand Rapids are calling for a state of emergency declaration over the conditions facing young black and Hispanic men in the…

It’s been about ten years since Peter Ho Davies came out with his first novel, The Welsh Girl. It was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Now,…

Michigan Radio is involved with several news media partners in a project called the Detroit Journalism Cooperative. One of the issues we're looking at…